Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-21
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Lord Saiisbury's Speech.
Lord Salisbury, in an address delivered
Tuesday night before the Primrose League,
at Albert Palace, London, the occasion be-
ing the sixth anniversary of the death OF the
Earl of Beaconslield, said the hollow agita-
tion carried on during the Easter holidays
by the opposition had failed, and that the
governments cause was the country's. The
government stood in Ireland facing a vast
machine producing terrorism and crime,
against which the government intended 10
! struggle with all the powers Parliament
would grant. Mr.. Gladstone's Imagination
deceived him when he attempted to prove
that his party's prospects were very bright.
The present Irish crimes bill would not
compare in stringency with Mr.. Gladstone's
| bill OF 1881. Under the latter measure peo-
ple were imprisoned without trial. This
! could not be done under the present BILL
The suppression OF crime in Ireland did not
mean the suppression Of liberty. The po.
licemen in arresting Bill Sykes did not in
terfere with liberty. Yet, MI GiaGstone
| condemned this crimes repression bill. a
| danger of the present Gay lay In catchWords.
|
changing his opinions, mentioned those who
separated from him in the tone of father
lecturing schildren-he preached at,and al
most prayed for them; bat it never occurred
to Mr. Gladstone that perhaps they had some
| thing to complain Of. They were unable to
| change their opinions in q night, like he
could. LORD Salisbury prophesied that Mr..
Gladstone wculd find it difficult to gather
around him any new recruits. His present
adherents had gone too far to Tecede. What
had Mr.. Gladstone gained asked the Pre-
mier. He had gained the eighty-six very
devoted followers of Mr. Parneli, who had
been challenged with having approved MUIR
der. and who had refused, or whose friends
| had refused for him, TO enter the witness
box and deny the charge. And this course
Mr. Gladstone approved. MIR. Parnell had
| been assisted with funds subscribed by men
who advocated murder. When mGn was
accused in such q manner, it was not open
| to him to put the accusation aside with
copious use of the elegant vocabulary his
| friends had introduced in the House Of Com
mons. He was bound to enter the witness
box and deny the charges against him most
solemnlv. How could MIR. Gladstone so
before the country, associated with men who
refused to submi. such question 10 the
judgement Of an English jury
The speaker did not believe ID the Glad
stone horoscope. The victory Mr. Gladstone
obtained in 1880 was won by flood ofmisrep-
reservations that could not DO repeated. The
Conservatives WIRE now an organized party,
nowerful TO refute ialsehood and TO dissent
nate truth. This condition of the party was
largely due to the work OF the Primrose
League. The present government would,
when ii left Office, hand down unlmpaired
to their successors the great trust OF the EN-
p;re committed to their care. Cheers.
Lord Salisbury said: "We repudiate the
word coercion, because by long usage that
is applied to repression Of political opinion,
with which we have nothing to do. we
stand in the presence in Ireland OF q system
of crime which s sapping most surely and
fatally the happiness and freedom OF the
peope. A vast organization is taking away
human freedom and interfering with men
in all stations by the machinery OF intiml-
dation. Mr.. Gladstone asserts that the
crimes bill gives to the government the
power to deal with political associations
supporting crime; but this power is confer
red py the House of Commons. The House
of Commons alone can allow such machln-
cry 10 be set in motion. All such opposition
is based upon g false and an unsound toun-
dation. The opponents OF the government
endeayor to appreciate, for the purpose of
attacking the bill, feeling which has al
wavs intelligibly existed against political
repression. T"Bearl hear!" But the re-
pressers of crime do not attack the liberty OF
| the people. On the contrary, they are It's
greatest defenders. Mr. Gladstone's idea
when, on fine morning in 1850, he,
who had been al! his life vigorous oppo'
nent Of home rule, awolle to advocate home
! rule, was that ii was his followers duty TO
awake the home rulers, too. Cheers and
/ laughter. There is nc limit to Mr.. Glad.
stones belief in the obsequious obedience OF
the followers of his standard. 1t has al
WAYS been thought that the Jesuits made
large claims upon human obedience when
thev REQUIRE the human will TO be expressed
os + hy corpaes. But at least the Jesuits
we'll understand that they have well.ixed
freedom in the belief that they are required
to accent Mr.. Gladstone's votaries, under
main of excommunication, are bound not
only TO devote themselves as corpses to Mr.
Gladstone's will, but are bound to turn from
one opinion to another at moments no. az,
tice. They are held up as traitors to CIVIL
zstion and liberalism if they dare to adhere
to the opinions he has always taught them.
! Cheers. Mr.. Gladstone tells us that Tor
fifteen wears he mas believed in home rule,
but he has kept his change of conviction to
himself so cleverly that everybody beiieved
that he still objected 1t seems hard that
the liberal-unionists should be punished
with all this imprecation because they were
not acute enough to discern how much Mr..
Gladstone was taking them in" Cheers
and voice: HE has taken himself in"
Lord Salisbury resumed: This treatment
is not calculated to gather around him
new staff and new army. Thereare some
desperate politicians who have gone so far